Statement From Bill McEwen on Thendic-Amiga

[SlimJim]

Ok, let's make the first on-topic comment for a while ...
 
Assuming all quotes are true,it does seem to be a
discrepancy between what AInc IP Genesi thinks they can
port to the Pegasos and what AInc will allow. As I read it,
Mr. Buck says the ruling is in their favour. McEwen says
the court's still working on it.
 
Does anyone have an objective clue as to the status of the
court proceedings, rather than just guessing? Must there
not be some way of finding out if court proceedings are
concluded or not, even if the content of the negotiations are
not disclosed? Perhaps Genesi "won" the first round, but
AInc is appealing, and that's the cause for the different
point of view?
 
In short, does anyone - not having a severe bias - really
know, or is everybody just guessing as usual and base their
opinions on interpretations of obscyre comments in fora?
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

@ACEFNQ
 
Somehow I doubt there will be any possibilities of agreeing
on a joint statement from this community to the companies
involved.
 
But I agree it's a nice idea. By all means, post your ideas
(i.e.  as a proper thread and not deep down among the
comments where noone can see it) over a few different
sites and hear what people say. Miracles do happen from
time to time. :-)
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

Well for once, I didn't see much to fault with the Executive
update (but it's a sad state of affairs that it has to be posted
in the first place). It simply stated that the court decision is
still in flux. If that is AInc:s view of the story, it should be
heard.
 
I feel the EULA business was perhaps a little unnessecary
to include, but to me it more feels like this "reminder" is
more aimed at Genesis possible new bundle rather than
already present offerings.
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

the sad thing that NOBODY seems to realise on the red side is that by getting AmigaDE on Pegasos/MOS it makes the Peg/MOS actually a gainful product for Amiga.inc, they would make money from AmigaDE sales to Peg/MOS users, I dont see where the anger against it comes from. It seems childish and backward minded.

Well, for once I agree with you, despite your unfortunate
behaviour of labelling people this or that. A wider user base
for AmigaDE is always good and Pegasos/MOS users seem
a natural group to include, being such a close branch of the
native AmigaOS community. I can only assume this "deal"
has some inbuilt financial drawbacks for AmigaInc, or that
is takes resources they cannot spare. In short, there must
be some drawback we don't know about.
 
I've still not understood exactly what the deal is about -
McEwen says "We have not agreed on porting AmigaDE to
the Pegasos", this suggests the deal is that it's
AmigaInc that is to do the work of porting. How come
bbrv claimed (apparently) that "porting was already under
way"? Or did I misunderstand that?
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

@KennyR

When will such people get over the fact that others have their own choices to make, and when they choose a company that's actually producing hardware and software, aren't some kind of puppets just because they don't choose AInc?

 
When?
I suppose just as soon as some other "such
people" get over the fact that people aren't "some
kind of puppets" just because they do choose to
go with the AmigaInc line...?
 
(not referring to you personally).
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SlimJim